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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I messed up with some backups here and I ended up breaking my system. I reinstalled it yesterday and I think I will give up on upgrading mesa for now. To be honest, with the stock packages the system feels faster (can't actually confirm that but anyways). I am not noticing a sluggish behaviour like I was before. I think I will let it this way.

I messed up with some backups here and I ended up breaking my system. I reinstalled it yesterday and I think I will give up on upgrading mesa for now. To be honest, with the stock packages the system feels faster (can't actually confirm that but anyways). I am not noticing a sluggish behaviour like I was before. I think I will let it this way.

With the slackbuild for mesa I posted I succesfully updated to xorg-1.15. I have a nvidia gpu.

I played with this a bit when I had some free time, but simply can't figure out what is going wrong here. I even tried it with a small Gentoo installation to figure out if there is maybe a regression somewhere, but on Gentoo everything compiles and works as intended. Sadly, I have no clue how Gentoo's ebuild files work, so that I can apply its build scripts to the Slackbuilds.

I am totally out of ideas here and, to be honest, currently thinking about switching my main machine to Gentoo (and learning how those ebuilds and Portage work). Portage seems to me to be sbopkg on steroids and I really like its concept.